I love your view on this, I agree that people should feel free to identify according to their preference. Personally I use identity-first language, and I notice a lot of autistic people who support Neurodiversity tend to lean that way, too. Either way, I have no problem if someone wants to identify as separate from their autism or their disability. My only wish is that they value themselves, whatever that looks like, and that they don't see themselves as broken or burdensome just because they are different or have a disability. (By the way, thank you for captioning your videos. I personally don't need them but I know others might, like those with hearing or verbal processing issues.)
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I love your view on this, I agree that people should feel free to identify according to their preference. Personally I use identity-first language, and I notice a lot of autistic people who support Neurodiversity tend to lean that way, too. Either way, I have no problem if someone wants to identify as separate from their autism or their disability. My only wish is that they value themselves, whatever that looks like, and that they don't see themselves as broken or burdensome just because they are different or have a disability.
(By the way, thank you for captioning your videos. I personally don't need them but I know others might, like those with hearing or verbal processing issues.)
Thanks for the input, Ivanova! Looking forward to seeing more videos.